Poll: Most Badass Movie Characters ✯

Results of 2,943 votes:

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   Heath Ledger and Martin Ballantyne in The Dark Knight (2008)

    

   "Why so serious?... Why so serious?...Let's put a smile on that face!... aaannd « Why so serious?»” - Joker
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   Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II (1974)

    

   "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone." - Michael Corleone
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   Best Supporting Actor

    

   "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss..." - Anton Chigurh
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   Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)

    

   "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf**ker." - John McClane
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   Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

    

   "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." - Blondie
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   Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

    

   “I'm Tony Montana! You f**k with me, you f**kin' with the best!” – Tony Montana
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   #13

    

   "Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherf***er, say what one more Goddamn time!" - Jules Winnfield
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   Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    

   "AU REVOIR, SHOSANNA!" - Col. Hans Landa
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   Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999)

    

   "This isn't love, it's sport f**king." - Tyler Durden
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

     

    "I'll be back!" - T-800
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    Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)

     

    "King Kong ain't got $h*! on me." - Alonzo Harris
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    Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

     

    "I'll pump him full of this $h*!; I swear!" - Sarah Connor
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    #14

     

    "You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little f**ked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f**kin' …
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    Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)

     

    "After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone." - Verbal Ki…
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    Benicio Del Toro in Sicario (2015)

     

    "Time to meet God." - Alejandro
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    #22

     

    "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse!" - Don Vito Corleone
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    Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen (2009)

     

    "...The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper 'no'." - Rorsch…
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    Ryan Gosling in Drive (2011)

     

    "You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river." - Driver
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    Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

     

    “When i'm paid i always see the job through” – Angel Eyes
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    Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

     

    "I took his fingers with bolt cutters, his toes with tin snips, his balls with a hack saw, and his p**is with a box cutter, how's that for specifics?" - Clyde Shelton
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    Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl (2014)

     

    "...I'm the c*nt you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this c*nt might like. I'm not a quitter, I'm that c*nt. I killed for you; who else can say th…
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    Gary Oldman in Léon: The Professional (1994)

     

    "I like these quiet little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven." - Stansfield
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    #9

     

    “I like the way you die, boy” – Django
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    Natalie Portman in Léon: The Professional (1994)

     

    "I don't give a $h*! about sleeping, Leon. I want love, or death. That's it." - Mathilda
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    Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful Eight (2015)

     

    "...Hahahaahaha! Startin' to see pictures, ain't ya?" - Major Marquis Warren
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    #10

     

    "SOLD... TO THE MAN WITH EXCEPTIONAL BEARD, AND HIS UNEXCEPTIONAL N*****!" - Calvin Candie
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    J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller in Whiplash (2014)

     

    "Were you rushing or were you dragging?..." - Terence Fletcher
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    Denzel Washington and Idris Elba in American Gangster (2007)

     

    "See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody." - Frank Lucas
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    Wagner Moura in Elite Squad (2007)

     

    "We come up here to clean this mess you make, you fag**t!" - Capt. Nascimento
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    Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler (2014)

     

    "That's my job, that's what I do, I'd like to think if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life" - Louis Bloom
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    Billy Crudup in Watchmen (2009)

     

    "Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman... did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the Sun. I have witnessed events so tiny …
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    Clive Owen in Inside Man (2006)

     

    "I'm no martyr. I did it for the money. But it's not worth much if you can't face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency..." - Dalton Russell
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    Leandro Firmino and Paulo 'Jacaré' César in City of God (2002)

     

    "Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?" - Zé Pequeno
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    Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)

     

    "Coughlin! Throw down your weapon!" - FBI Agent Adam "F**k you!" - James Coughlin
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    Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)

     

    "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." - Mark